Biscuit-cutter



(No Model.)

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} BISCUIT CUTTER. No. 337,329. Patented Mar. 2,1886.

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I ROBERT JOSEPHUS HEWETT, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

BISCUIT-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337.329, dated March 2,1886.

Application filed J'une 23, 1885. Serial No. 169,553. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that 1, ROBERT JOSEPHUS HEWETT, a citizen of the UnitedStates, re-

siding at St. Louis, in the county of St. Louis and State of Missouri,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Biscuit- Cutters;and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as Will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of this invention, and is aview of the under side. Fig. 2 is aside view.

This invention has relation to biscuit-cutters; and it consists in theconstruction and novel arrangement of devices, all as hereinafter setforth, and pointed out in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, the letters A, B, and G designate stripsof tin,which are bent upon a hexagonal former, so that their angles areone hundred and twenty degrees. Of these strips I employ, usually, inmaking a cutter, six having five sides, as indicated at A, and othershaving four sides and three sides, as at B and O. The five'side stripsare arranged about the center space to form a hexagonal interval, as atD,which, with the six strips duly soldered together by their endflanges, E,serves to provide seven hexagon cutters. The foursided stripsB, also having end flanges, are soldered to the five-sided strips, andthe threesided strips to the four-sided strips, all these strips beingsoldered to the cap'plate or braceplate F, which is perforated in eachcutter to provide apertures for the escape of air, as indicated at G.The cap-plate usually projects beyond the cutters, forming ahandle-flange, H.

the baking-pan, the biscuits in being baked assume a rounded contour,because the angles of formation are of large measurement, and the effectof the baking is to contract at the angles and swell at the sides.

Each two hexagon cutters of the set have one wall in common, and thisconstruction avoids the formation of scraps in cutting the dough, while,as indicated above, an approximately-round biscuit results in thebaking.

I am aware that it is not new to form ahexagona'l cutter, and that suchcutters have been united in a group, and therefore do not claim suchconstruction, broadly.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

The biscuit-cutter consisting of the strips bent to form hexagonalcutters and having end flanges, and the perforated cap-plate having itsedges laterally extended to form a handleflange, said strips beingsoldered together to form a cluster of hexagons, each having one side incommon, and all said strips being soldered to the cap-plate,substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT JOSEPHUS HEWETT.

\Vitnesses:

J. J. HAMMOND, C. W. GRoos.

